There are two types of Chinese encoding methods commonly used in websites: "Big5" for Traditional Chinese, and "GB" for the Simplified Chinese.

The name Pyngo is a play on the phrase “PengYou N’ GO.” PengYou in Chinese means friends. There’s an old saying in China, “With friends, you can go around the world. Without friends, it is difficult to move one inch.” How true!

Here is a great link to evaluate your Chinese skills, provided by ESL. 40 short multiple choice questions. We suggest you take 20 minutes to complete the quiz.

Happy Valentine's Day to Everyone! Big News - Pyngo Beta has been officially released! By popular community feedback, we have added a lot of fun things to Pyngo for you to keep in touch with friends and study buddies.

We wanted to say a big CONGRATULATIONS to the two lucky winners of the iPhones drawing, Brandon from Columbia University in New York, and Daphnekuku from Beijing Normal University in China!

A lot of big things are happening behind the scenes. We've been working our butts off on the next major release of our website...with more intuitive navigation, improved usability, built-in IM & Audio/Video Chat, and much much more!!!